In My Pretty Garden

When we came home from Provo I went out to check my garden and found that a little rodent had decided to make my garden it's new home.  We have had gophers in the past in the front yard but I have never had one in the back especially in the garden.  He had already killed one of my squash plants and I was not going to let him have another!  I flooded him out Sunday night and then watched to see if he would come back.  On Tuesday there were more tunnels so I called Connor to bring me a gopher trap from Grandpa's.  While I was waiting I tried to drown him out again.  Grandpa came right over and while we looking at the trap the little sucker  stuck his head up out of his tunnels because they were filling with water.  I sprayed him and he ran out of the garden toward the back wall and then grandpa stomped him.  That was the end of the gopher.  The next day I went out to check the garden to make sure he was really gone and didn't have any relatives helping him and I was happy to see he had not come back nor any of his friends and family and even his little corpse was gone thanks to a neighborhood cat I would guess!  Hooray!

These are the first 3 pickings from our garden this year.  The dark one was really tough but it was all going into minestrone anyway so it softened up some in the soup.  The squash are doing awesome but the zucchini are not doing to well.  I even went and bought two more plants because of the 5 I planted only one was doing really well.  The two new ones are still not doing that great either.  The tomato plants are getting big and we are starting to see some little tomatoes on them. Yay for gardens!